Relating to workers compensation; expanding the definition of occupational disease and personal injury to include mental impairment; defining mental impairment; specifying compensable injury conditions; modifying legal services fees limitation; specifying legal disbursements additional award applicability; modifying temporary total disability; defining job placement to include job development and specifying a limit; regulating registered rehabilitation consultant case management services; requiring timely administrative conferences on rehabilitation issues; limiting employer liability prevailing charges; specifying health care provider payment fulfillment; modifying benefit adjustment; requiring the commissioner of labor and industry to development rules establishing standards and procedures for criteria for long-term opioid and scheduled pain medication use; requiring the commissioner to implement a temporary patient advocate program for certain employees with back injuries
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